sour
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Key to their transformation has been the crypto sector, where they were all neophytes a few years ago, but now run businesses that raised billions of dollars from investors before the market turned sour.
It’s doubtful that any trading algorithms kicked in, except those that might have been keyed to a sharp reversal of trading sentiment from earlier in the week, when it was pretty sour.
From Los Angeles Times
Investors are souring on some speculative bets on unprofitable tech companies, while individual firms’ earnings reports or data-center construction updates spark price swings across the sector.
Cold chicken, cold cornbread, sliced tomatoes with thin slivers of onion on top, and her sour pickles.
From Literature
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The company’s shares have dropped this week after investors soured on the software and financial data sectors.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.